they all went to mississippi industrial, mi, or school, and so that was my tradition. tavis: wow. how would you situate this with your corpus, the rest of your body of work? this fits in how? >> this is -- tavis: "sound the alarm." >> something of a 360 for me. it's my return to stax records, which was my genesis in the music business. my original record label was stax records. but this, this music, i think, is music that would have been made had stax not gone through some of the hiccups, i'll call them -- changes that caused the company to falter because of disco in the 70s and because of hip-hop and rap in the 80s and 90s, and because of the financial problems that stax records went through. i think if stax had been allowed to live all that time, this is the type of music that they would be making. i can say that because i was one of the original people there. i think this is what it would have evolved to. i'm very proud of this music and i had a great time making it, and great, really happy to present it on stax records. tavis: as much as i love talking to booker t., the best p